Kenny Malone

This is Planet Money from NPR.

So excited to be in Boston.

We say hello, Seattle.

Is that a thing we get to do on Book Tour?

Yes.

What's the last bit of work that took you a month?

Writing these questions for you took more time than I wanted.

Yeah, yeah.

Is it fair to call these science fiction?

It is fair to call them science fiction.

I'd like to give people a little taste of what's in here.

So the one I want you to read that feels very Planet Money, it imagines in the year 2025, we'll forgive you because you're a little wrong on that one.

But in the year 2025, you imagine a factory in China.

It is overseen by a robot factory line and AI is overseeing the robots.

And then AI is also trying to imagine new types of products.

And then if you just want to read.

Okay, so we imagine a world where AI is able to both control the robots that make the product, innovate and design the products, ship them off to human focus groups, and then sell them to humans.

So here's my question for you.

Where are we the humans in this story?

Are we off in a field dancing, eating dates in the sun?